Movement Education should never be looked upon as a general free for all. It is a form of physical education with a most emphatic purpose, which is to encourage the child to think independently by fulfilling the task or instruction given to the class. Success in Movement Education requires each child to have a basic movement vocabulary, which the children must learn first. One must not assume that every student knows how to skip or what the difference is between hopping an

Back in the “sixties” when we, the recent converts to movement education, were looking at the sacred cows of physical education with the same irreverence that teenage boys looked at conventional hairstyles, some of us took the position that physical education needed a new movement education image. Others took a more conservative position by simply including movement education units of exploration into already existing curricula for the lower grades. We puzzled over British b

The majority of dance and aerobic injuries occur in the legs, feet, and back. Most appear to be related to the impact of repetitive jumping